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Morley & Gearhart Rediscovered - Historic Two-Piano Wizardry

Label: Ivory Classics

Cat No: 72004

Barcode: 0644057200428

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

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Artists

Virginia Morley (piano)
Livingston Gearhart (piano)

Artists

Virginia Morley (piano)
Livingston Gearhart (piano)

About

From 1940 until 1954, the husband and wife two-piano duo of Virginia Morley and Livingston Gearhart made headlines criss-crossing the U.S. and Canada twenty-six times performing annual concert tours. Always accompanied by their two nine-foot Steinways in a separate custom van, they performed for enthusiastic audiences from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl. Receiving rave reviews and standing ovations, audiences and critics alike were ecstatic and amazed at their musicianship. A typical review stated: "Miss Morley is beautiful. Mr. Gearhart is good-looking. Their duo-piano playing is magical. It was as if one brain were directing two pairs of hands on the same keyboard... and the applause, to coin a phrase, was thunderous. The pianists received more than a score of curtain calls."

Their unique brand of programming, combining sophisticated Livingston Gearhart arrangements of popular music with two-piano classical standards, along with new piano commissions (David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio and Darius Milhaud wrote two-piano compositions for them), made them truly unique.

This 2-CD release of remastered historic recordings dating from 1947 to 1954, showcases the extraordinary two-piano artistry of Morley and Gearhart. Also included is a very informative and lavish 28-page booklet along with many rare photographs.

All Two Piano Arrangements by Livingston Gearhart except Arensky, Brahms and Tailleferre.

Contents:

DISC 1

Livingston Gearhart:
[01] Three Blind Mice (Traditional)

Richard Strauss / Livingston Gearhart:
[02] Waltzes from 'Der Rosenkavalier'

Manuel Falla / Livingston Gearhart:
[03] Dance of Terror from 'El Amor Brujo'

Jerome Kern / Livingston Gearhart:
[04] All The Things You Are

Johannes Brahms:
[05] Eight Waltzes, from Op. 39

Francis Poulenc / Livingston Gearhart:
[06] Mouvements perpetuéls

George Gershwin / Livingston Gearhart:
[07] I Got Rhythm

Alberto Dominguez / Livingston Gearhart:
[08] Frenesi

Stepanovich Arensky:
[09] Waltz, Op. 15, No. 2

George Gershwin / Livingston Gearhart:
[10] An American in Paris

Irving Berlin / Livingston Gearhart:
[11] Russian Lullaby

Gabriel Fauré / Livingston Gearhart :
[12] Nocturne from Shylock, Op. 57

George Gershwin / Livingston Gearhart:
[13] Concerto in F - 3rd Mvt.: Finale: Allegro agitato

E.Y.Harburg-Vernon Duke / Livingston Gearhart:
[14] April in Paris

Hoagy Carmichael / Livingston Gearhart:
[15] Star Dust

Johann Strauss (II) / Livingston Gearhart:
[16] Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314

Maurice Ravel / Livingston :
[17] Pièce en forme de Habañera

Reinhold Glieré / Livingston Gearhart:
[18] Sailor's Dance from 'The Red Poppy'

DISC 2

Wendell Keeney / Livingston Gearhart:
[01] Mountain Tune

Philip Braham / Livingston Gearhart:
[02] Limehouse Blues

Germaine Tailleferre:
[03] La Tirelitentaine

Johannes Brahms:
[04] Waltz in A Major, Op. 39, No. 15

Richards Offenbach / Livingston Gearhart:
[05] Can-Can

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Livingston Gearhart:
[06] Flight of the Bumblebee

Vincent Youmans / Livingston Gearhart:
[07] Tea for Two

Frederic Chopin / Livingston Gearhart:
[08] Waltz No. 6, Op. 64 No. 1, 'Minute Waltz (Petit chien)'

Claude Debussy / Livingston Gearhart:
[09] Fêtes

Felix Arndt / Livingston Gearhart:
[10] Nola

Livingston Gearhart:
[11] Baby Boogie

Manuel Falla / Livingston Gearhart:
[12] Ritual Fire Dance from 'El Amor Brujo'

Anatoly Liadov / Livingston Gearhart:
[13] Music Box, Op. 32

Franz Liszt / Livingston Gearhart:
[14] Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor (S244/R106)

Jean Lenoir / Livingston Gearhart:
[15] Parlez moi d'amour

Johann Sebastian Bach / Livingston Gearhart:
[16] Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Sergei Rachmaninov / Livingston Gearhart:
[17] Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5

Sergei Prokofiev / Livingston Gearhart:
[18] March from 'The Love for Three Oranges'

Richard Rodgers / Livingston Gearhart:
[19] With a Song in my Heart

Zoltan Kodály / Livingston Gearhart:
[20] The Viennese Musical Clock

Johann Sebastian Bach / Livingston Gearhart:
[21] In Thee Is Joy

Harold Arlen / Livingston Gearhart:
[22] Stormy Weather

Zez Confrey / Livingston Gearhart:
[23] Kitten on the Keys

John W. Green / Livingston Gearhart:
[24] Body and Soul

Egbert Van Alstyne / Livingston Gearhart:
[25] Goodnight Ladies

(ADD) Recorded in 1947, 1949, 1951, 1954.